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A Minor Cinema
***PLEASE NOTE: This screening will follow our 2014 edition of Home Movie Day. Please note that due to a significant portion of the program being on Super 8mm, we will be limiting tickets for this screening for an optimal experience. Online tickets are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Also note that the setup of this screening follows that of Home Movie Day; chairs will be available, but audience members are encouraged to bring pillows and blankets to lie down on.***
"These films assert no vision of conquest, make no claims to hegemony. A minor cinema reshapes our image of the avant-garde, moving away from its image of shock troop battalions." Tom Gunning
The late 80s are a much discussed period in experimental film history: Fred Camper had published his controversial essay "The End of Avant-Garde Film", and the contentious reception of the 1989 International Experimental Film Congress in Toronto brought a number of simmering issues to the fore. In response to these developments, Tom Gunning wrote "Towards a Minor Cinema: Fonoroff, Herwitz, Ahwesh, LaPore, Klahr, and Solomon", where the film scholar saw a fresh proclivity among a group of filmmakers, many of them associated with the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Citing a shift from the dominant modes of structural film and the new narrative, a use of small-gauge film in the age of analog video, and a celebration of "marginal identity, fashioning from it a revolutionary consciousness", Gunning articulated a stance that continues to inspire moving image artists today.
In honor of Home Movie Day, Experimental Response Cinema is excited to present a screening inspired by Gunning's article, including several works on their original Super 8mm formats. Featuring films by Peggy Ahwesh, Nina Fonoroff, Peter Herwitz, Lewis Klahr, Saul Levine, Phil Solomon, and a brand-new print of Mark LaPore's Five Bad Elements, recently restored by the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. Copies of Tom Gunning's article will also be available at the screening. Film prints courtesy of Canyon Cinema and the artists. Programmed by Ekrem Serdar.
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LocationMASS Gallery (View)
507 Calles Street, Suite 108
Austin, TX 78702
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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